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AmyK Conley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The much-criticized Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) is not aligned with current Common Core literacy standards, is expensive, has a low pass rate on the first try of 66%, and keeps People of Color from joining the profession (California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2019). The test maybe replaced with coursework. Critics…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Competency Based Education, Credits, Evaluation Methods
Gallagher, Kelly – Educational Leadership, 2017
Kelly Gallagher writes that "wide swaths of students are not developing their writing skills--skills we know to be foundational to their literate lives." In this article, he explains how school districts can go about developing students' writing skills in all content-area classrooms. He highlights five reasons why students should write…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Content Area Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum